mccJul 18, 2023

Alright check out this fucking scam

So I need to park my rental car overnight until I return it tomorrow morning. Meter hours last until 9, so I need to pay the city's meter parking $1.80 for like half an hour until then. Fine.

But all the meter machines have been removed. Instead, you now use an "app".

The "app" has a "wallet". The "wallet" does not support adding money in increments of less than $20.

I don't own a car. This is, again, a rental.

I am never getting that other $18.20 back.

Show threadmccJul 18, 2023
Now you might think that I'm just an edge case and the city can't possibly be expected to support someone who needs to park once for half an hour and then literally never again. But consider that Toronto is actually a very frequent destination for tourists, many of them from entire other countries,
Show threadWildRikkuJul 18, 2023
@mcc I agree it's kind of a scam (I was recently upset about something similar) but I suspect it's because the parking fees themselves are actually... really low? Is that normal in big Canadian cities?
Show threadMichael
@wildrikku @mcc Happy to say that where I live (in Victoria, BC) you have to use an app, but you can pay the necessary amount using your credit card.
Jul 18, 2023 at 10:04amWeb